Hanan Yoran

Between Utopia and Dystopia

Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters

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Produktbeschreibung

Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual, but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More, employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history, and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780739136478
• ISBN-10: 073913647X
• Artikelnr.: 28532991

Autorenporträt

Hanan Yoran is lecturer in the department of history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. The Erasmian Republic of Letters Chapter 1. Humanism
as Form Chapter 2. The Construction of the Erasmian Republic of Letters
Chapter 3. Erasmian Humanism: The Reform Program of the Universal
Intellectual Part II. The Erasmian Republic and Its Discontents Chapter 4.
The Politics of a Disembodied Humanist Chapter 5. More's Richard III: The
Fragility of Humanist Discourse Chapter 6. Utopia and the No-place of the
Erasmian Republic Conclusion